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I'd definitely have to agree with you there Sparky. My first one was a mess. Second one wasn't much better (that one I didn't finish completely as a result - it sits there in the slush pile, toying with me...). Then I had the unthinkable happen - I wrote nearly 70,000+ words of a historical fiction story set in Vietnam I've been thinking about for years, and after getting it into a state of near completion and the beginnings of heavy revision, I lost it. It somehow got deleted. I have no idea how.

I make multiple backups now - and once a year burn my entire Scrivener folder to CD.

However, as bad as that was, it actually helped the story. It forced me to actually sit down and plan it all out, outline the entire plot, examine and put to text full back histories, plan character interactions, etc. I might have lost the MS, but the story itself is still buried in my cobwebby brain, and with all the pre-planning now it should be a far better story once I finish all the outlining and start writing it again.

And Sparky, man - if you actually had people ask you to send your book, jump on it. I dream of such things...

James "Fritz" Bucholtz

"The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish." - Manfred von Richthofen

I know quite a lot about certain periods of history but my stories flow from other periods. Yes, I know more than the average Joe on the street about those times but far, far less than I know of my periods of study. I wrote half of a novel, Morningstar, but people urged me to instead begin another story I envisioned so I ceased the former and began and finished Sea Horses. I've neither sought nor cared about "the Market" nor sought an agent.

No PM in sight Nummy. Maybe we better begin a writers' thread before the rest of TP tells us, "Get a room!"

Pilot Officer, Press Officer

"No smoking within twelve hours of mission brief. No drinking within fifty feet of the aircraft."